I want someone to hold me.
I'm staying with my first cousin once removed Diana for the holiday. She and her family are very nice and friendly, and I like them, and they were very good about including me. But that cannot change the fact that I have met Diana once before in my life, and none of the rest of them, and they all know each other very well, and I couldn't help feeling a bit like an outsider, and it just didn't quite feel like Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is a day for family. But growing up in Alaska, where the majority of people are far from their extended family, I'm used that being more about the family you choose for yourself than the family you're born into. My parents, whom I would very much like to be with, are over a thousand miles away. My friends, whom I would really love to be with, are scattered across the western US.
But just when I was feeling my loneliest, someone came in and put a cat on my bed. I still miss people, but having spent the last hour cat-petting, I'm feeling a lot better than I was.
On this Thanksgiving Day, I'm thankful for cats.
Thanksgiving is a day for family. But growing up in Alaska, where the majority of people are far from their extended family, I'm used that being more about the family you choose for yourself than the family you're born into. My parents, whom I would very much like to be with, are over a thousand miles away. My friends, whom I would really love to be with, are scattered across the western US.
But just when I was feeling my loneliest, someone came in and put a cat on my bed. I still miss people, but having spent the last hour cat-petting, I'm feeling a lot better than I was.
On this Thanksgiving Day, I'm thankful for cats.